Kidney transplants articles
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She was too sick for a traditional transplant. So she received a pig kidney and a heart pump
A New Jersey woman who was near death has received a transplanted pig kidney, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also stabilized her failing heart. Doctors at NYU Langone Health say 54-year-old Lisa Pisano is recovering well. She is only the second patient ever to receive a pig kidney. The first, a man transplanted last month in Boston, also is faring well. Pisano was far sicker, suffering a combination of heart and kidney failure. It's the latest in a string of attempts to make...
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A new kind of gene-edited pig kidney was just transplanted into a person
A month ago, Richard Slayman became the first living person to receive a kidney transplant from a gene-edited pig. Now, a team of researchers from NYU Langone Health reports that Lisa Pisano, a 54-year-old woman from New Jersey, has become the second. Her new kidney has just a single genetic modification—an approach that researchers hope…
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‘Her kidneys were destroyed’ — Windsor man grateful for extra time daughter's organ transplant gave her
By the time Breanna Van Watteghem turned five years old, her kidneys had already started to fail. It began with the cloudy urine her parents would find in the toilet whenever she forgot to flush. That was followed later by recurring urinary tract infections, then persistent lower back pain beginning at the age of 11. […]